Strike to go ahead at galleries and museums

Wednesday 29 May 2013 13:15 BST

Workers at museums and galleries are to go on strike in the latest phase of industrial action by civil servants in a row over jobs, pay and pensions.

Staff at the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and Imperial War Museum in London and Tate galleries in the capital and Liverpool will walk out tomorrow, followed by the British, Natural History, Science and Victoria and Albert museums in London and the Museum of Liverpool on Friday. English Heritage sites including Stonehenge will be hit on Sunday.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union in Government departments and agencies, including transport, business and energy and climate change, will also strike on Friday, while employees at English Heritage sites, including Stonehenge, will take action on Sunday.

The strikes, over cuts to pay, pensions and jobs, are part of a three month campaign of industrial action by the union, which is planning a national walkout at the end of June.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “These strikes highlight the huge gap between the valuable work our members do and the contempt being shown to them by ministers who are imposing cuts and refusing to even talk to us.”